Random thoughts, organized and categorized for your consumption.
General
Things so normal as to not fit neatly into any other area.
More Skiing
Feb 17th
Just got back from two days (kinda) of skiing and demoing another pair of skis. It was good weather and some fresh powder (California wet style) at Bear Valley. Sleep and food wasn’t so good but luckily the skiing made up for it. Only 3 hours from home to boot.
I’ll be glad to get some sleep now… and to get som Advil too.
The Way It Is
Feb 8th
So it is the end of another week of work and Tivo watching. It’s also the beginning of another all-too-short weekend where I can clean up around the apartment, do some gaming, and of course, vegetate in front of the Tivo. Is this great or what?
I’m beginning to think it’s “or what”.
Skiing
Jan 26th
I managed to sneak in some pretty good skiing this Friday at Kirkwood with Paul. Considering I haven’t done much exercise so far this winter and I haven’t skiied in a year I did pretty well. At least nothing came back broken.
The 4Runner had its first snow workout, although it was mainly gritty road conditions that caused extreme dirtyness, not ice or snow this trip. I may have chewed up the brakes as well since they are starting to stutter again. Grr.
TiVo Goodness
Jan 26th
I have successfully bumped my DirecTiVo unit from 30 hours to 107 hours! It was a pain, but I finally got a PC that was stable long enough for this to happen. I only have to upgrade two more (!) and I’m done. I now have weeks worth of programming available at any time… and no fear of it getting deleted when I leave town.
Yay me!
It's Alive!
Jan 15th
I’ve managed to bring back a Tivo unit from the dead, using only my skills as a l33t hax0r d00d. Actually I scoured the net and downloaded a bunch of images I then burned to CD and booted my test/home system to Linux to copy them over to the Tivo. All this after dismantling the Tivo completely. All I can say is when that stupid Tivo logo starts dancing on the TV I never thought I’d be so happy.
Next up: major size upgrade on the hard drive. Will the fun ever stop?
Out of date
Jan 5th
Here it is, the new year already, and I haven’t posted since September. What happened? Work happened, I suppose. Well a new resolution for the year is to keep this thing more up to date, so lets see how long I keep it!
Back, sort of
Apr 27th
I’m back from the Asia trip, work related, of course. Soon I’m off to visit the Redmond boys, so another trip is ahead. For a new job, there sure is little time to get work done with all of this travelling. Goofy.
Back and forth
Apr 15th
Well, I made it back from vacation and it ended up alright. Next steps are to write it all up, send the pictures out for development (darn film) and post it all up here. Maybe it will get done shortly, we’ll see.
New job started today and requires me to fly out of here (and out of the US) starting on Saturday for a week. Gotta love that travel stuff. Frequent flyer miles, here I come!
Coasting
Mar 25th
I admit it: my last work days are a bit less stressful and far less tasking than what I have previously experienced. That has led some people to opin that I am happy. To that thought I say “bah, humbug!” I may be smug, but I’m no gleeful school kid.
That said, it is good to have supporters of my actions. Even better, it is great to have people who push me to do the right things. The best is when they pay for drinks and/or buy airplane parts. If only this could happen all of the time
Oh, and if More >
Stuffs
Mar 25th
Here are the quick updates as they are today:
That’s all for now.